Putin Can’t Forget 1969 Apollo Lunar Landing, Announces Weapons That Makes U.S. Obsolete

“No one has listened to us. You listen to us now.”

-Russian President Vladimir Putin

Although one of the first experiments of the 1969 Apollo lunar landing mission has been largely lost to history, let alone completely censored in the United States, it’s something Russian President Vladimir Putin can’t forget. To be sure, the former KBG strongman still recalls Soviet intelligence reports detailing how two astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, set up an array of small reflectors on the moon and faced them toward the Earth. Meanwhile, back on earth-which is 240,000 miles from the moon-two teams of astrophysicists located at observatories in California and Texas proceeded to take careful notes regarding where, exactly, the two astronauts were when they set down the mirrors on the Moon.

The reason was to point a telescope at that precise location and to send a small pulse of power into the tiny piece of hardware the astrophysicists had added to their telescope. Inside the telescope, a beam of “extraordinarily pure red light” emerged from a crystal of synthetic ruby, pierced the sky, and entered the near vacuum of space traveling at the speed of light. The laser beam took less than two seconds to hit the mirrors left behind on the moon by the astronauts, and then the same amount of time to travel back to earth, where the astrophysicists detected its beam.(1) Years before President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars Program, DARPA and NASA had already started working on placing weapons in space that would be mounted with laser beams.

Not Your Ordinary Bayonet’s and Horses
It wasn’t enough to have beaten the Soviet Union to the Moon. Neither was it enough to have had a nuclear arsenal ten times larger. Adding insult to injury, the U.S. now had the capability of positioning weapons in outer space with laser beams. Consequently, on the heels of announcing a new weapon that makes U.S. aircraft carriers obsolete, no wonder President Putin just declared that his country has developed a new set of strategic nuclear weapons that can’t be intercepted. The new weapons, which marks another breakthrough that increases his nation’s military capabilities while possibly making NATO‘s U.S.-led missile defense system “useless,” includes a nuclear-powered cruise missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone, and a new hypersonic missile.(2)

As for a new weapon that makes U.S. aircraft carriers sitting ducks, President Putin takes pride that the U.S. has always lagged behind his nation‘s anti-ship missile systems. Indeed, the new high-speed underwater drone has an “intercontinental” range. It will compliment the new Shtorm-class aircraft carriers, a hybrid to the STOBAR and CATOBAR. The new carriers will carry naval fighters and long range bombers fitted with long range missiles-Zircon and Avangard-that have a range of 4,600 miles. The intercontinental hypersonic missiles will fly to targets performing sharp maneuvers at a speed 20 times the speed of sound and strike “like a meteorite, like a fireball.” Another hypersonic missile is the Kinzhal, a land missile, which has already been deployed.

Cold War-Era Mission Never Accomplished
According to President Putin, the advanced weapons, which he ensures are “absolutely invulnerable to any missile defense system,” is the result of those nations that have “fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions, and aimed to contain our country’s development.” What’s more, he warned that any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies would immediately meet a response.(3) Adding the development of new weapons have no equivalent in the West, he further criticized the U.S. for withdrawing from a Cold War-era treaty banning missile defenses and U.S. efforts to develop a missile defense system. The missile defense system included the ongoing Star Wars program.

The U.S. is also in the process of developing the new stealth Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, with a range of more than 200 miles which will carry a 1,000 pound-warhead. Through DARPA, it’s also producing “swarm drones,” where a hundred or more air or ground drones will work in a robotic blitz to blanket the battlefield and smother the enemy. Evidently, the swarm drones, like the Gray Wolf cruise missiles, will be able to communicate with each other allowing them to “swarm” on enemies like insects. The new missiles will be fitted on F-16 fighter jets with the U.S. military hoping to adapt them for other types of military aircraft. Cyber-warfare and malware programs that infect missile systems will continue to be a priority too.

The Moon Is a Bitter Reminder
For now, the U.S. still spends $10 billion dollars per year on Star Wars-or the Strategic Defense Initiative, something President Putin has to acknowledge whenever he views the Moon. Despite U.S. propaganda, he also knows the laser technology wasn’t for peaceful purposes. To be sure, he’s familiar with the Eight Card program which remains classified today like other laser programs. He also realizes directed-energy programs have many advantages, none so great as speed. Still, and despite further embarrassments over U.S. interventions in Afghanistan, Serbia, Ukraine, and Syria, or how the U.S. exploited the Soviet Union as it collapsed, he hopes Russia’s new class of weapons systems will at least check the U.S., not to mention restoring his nation’s international prestige.

Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John’s Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.WN.com. You can read more of Dallas’ writings at www.beverlydarling.com and www.WN.com//dallasdarling.

(1) Jacobsen, Annie. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency. New York, New York: Little, Brown And Company, 2015., p. 262.
(2) www.washingtonpost.com. “Putin Claims Russia Is Developing Nuclear Arms Capable of Avoiding Missile Defenses,” by Anton Troianovaski. March 1, 2018.
(2) www.washingtonpost.com. “Putin Claims Russia Is Developing Nuclear Arms Capable of Avoiding Missile Defenses.”